PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81909, 21 December 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Tlio lion, J. Carruthers, Premier of New South Wales, proposes to take a holiday early next year, find will visit the North Island only. Tho death is reported from Nelson of llrs Eluabetl* Nixon, mother of the late llenry Jidwavds, ayed IU2 years, bhe was u very old colonist and widely related.

Mo.ssrs J, ji>. Joynt and K. Tregear have been appointed Governors o£ the x\ew Zealand Instituto.

Mr Dan. Phillips, ol 11(0 stair of tlie Magistrate s Court at jN cw who is believciL to have contracted typhoid, has been removed to tho hospital for treatment, Mr Phillips in-! tended leaving for his home at Greymouth in a few days on holiday. At Onohunga on Wednesday, Mr Harold Duxton, of Wvaguniii, was married to Miss Alice lSobin, stepdaughter of Mr K G. Allswortli, proprielorof (he " Mauukau Chronicle," and formerly of New Plymouth. liingi Ngatuere, a well-known Maori chief in the Carterton district, died on Wednesday from injuries sustained by a fall from a gig on Saturday night. Ho was tlie sou of a noted chief, jNgatuere Tawhiri Matea, of the Ngatuere tribe, and was twice married. He leaves a widow and live daughters and two sons. It is anticipated that the tangi will rtyal anything of the kind yet held ia the colouy. Dr. James Martin, of Middlcinarch, was thrown out of his trap between Macrae s and Moonlight yesterday, says a Press wire from Dtmedin, and sustained fatal injuries. Xhe deceased, who was unmarried and about fiftyfour years of age, was in practice m Dunedin with his brother, Dr. Kobert Martin, before he took up his Middlemarch practice, a little over two years iIRO.

There is no foundation for the statement that Mr Justice Edward's liealtli lias for some time past been unsatisfactory, and that lie is taking leave of absence on that account, says a Press wire from Auckland, His Honor is in excellent health, and he is fating leaye of absence solely because he has been ten and a-hall: years upon the Bench and is more than entitled to a holiday. During tlie past year, His Honor has done & very lull share of the work of tlie Supreme Court and of til? Court of Appeal, in addition to undertaking the duties of the Jleitie Commission.